But the thought of Apple devoting any time to reworking this dinosaur at this point, seems pointless.
In the interest of pragmatism, Drèze and Sen might have devoted more thought to how to make India's existing social-welfare initiatives work better.
I was a teen-ager at the time and, until then, I'd never devoted much thought to what makes us who we are.
In recent seasons this superb guitarist has devoted considerable thought to her programming, generally building it around themes that let her explore unusual repertory corners.
"PRIVATE-equity firms are only now starting to do aggressive branding," says David Rubenstein, boss of the Carlyle Group, a top private-equity company that has probably devoted more thought to its brand strategy than anyone else in the industry.
At 36, Mr. Harding is thin, just beyond boyish and conducts with a balletic flair, but he clearly has devoted considerable thought to Mahler's music and what makes it work.
There is no hint from the Administration that, when it speaks of two states, it has devoted much thought to the integration that the states would have to cultivate along with their national homes.
After the second world war Japan and Germany rose from the ashes to become the world's second- and third-largest economies, without a whisper of a political challenge to the United States.International-relations theorists have devoted much thought to the passing of empires.
Private schools offering supplementary English tuition have mushroomed.Hong Kong's slow-moving educational bureaucracy has devoted much thought to how English could be offered without harming other studies, and without sacrificing a generation of teachers with a vested interest in a system based on their first language.
As has been documented elsewhere, Beckett also devoted extensive thought and reading to a play about Dr. Johnson; in particular, about his long companionship with Hester Thrale and the fracture between them caused by her being widowed and remarried — "she had none of that need to suffer, or necessity of suffering, that he had," Beckett remarks in a letter of 1937.
